receive

re·ceive  (r-sv)

v. re·ceived, re·ceiv·ing, re·ceives

v.tr.

1. To take or acquire (something given, offered, or transmitted); get.

2. To hear or see (information, for example): receive bad news; received a good report of the group's activities.

3. To have (a title, for example) bestowed on oneself.

4. To meet with; experience: receive sympathetic treatment.

5. To have inflicted or imposed on oneself: receive a penalty.

6. To bear the weight or force of; support: The beams receive the full weight of the walls and roof.

7. To take or intercept the impact of (a blow, for example).

8. To take in, hold, or contain: a tank that receives rainwater.

9. To admit: receive new members.

10. To greet or welcome: receive guests.

11. To perceive or acquire mentally: receive a bad impression.

12. To regard with approval or disapproval: essays that were received well.

13. To listen to and acknowledge formally and authoritatively: The judge received their oath of allegiance.

v.intr.

1. To acquire or get something; be a recipient.

2. To admit or welcome guests or visitors: The couple are not receiving this winter.

3. To partake of the Eucharist.

4. Electronics To convert incoming electromagnetic waves into visible or audible signals.

5. Football To catch or take possession of a kicked ball.

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[Middle English receiven, from Old North French receivre, from Latin recipere : re-, re- + capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]

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receive

Verb

[-ceiving, -ceived]

1. to get (something offered or sent to one)

2. to experience: he received a knife wound

3. to greet (guests)

4. to have (an honour) bestowed: he received the Order of the Garter

5. to admit (a person) to a society or condition: he was received into the Church

6. to convert (incoming radio or television signals) into sounds or pictures

7. to be informed of (news)

8. to react to: the article was well received

9. to support or sustain (the weight of something)

10. Tennis etc. to play at the other end from the server

11. Brit & NZ to buy and sell stolen goods [Latin recipere]

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	receive - get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front" have take up, take in - accept; "The cloth takes up the liquid" hustle - get by trying hard; "she hustled a free lunch from the waiter" accept - receive (a report) officially, as from a committee fence - receive stolen goods acquire, get - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" accept, take, have - receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present" graduate - receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990" inherit - receive by genetic transmission; "I inherited my good eyesight from my mother"
	2.	receive - receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" incur, obtain, get, find change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" take - ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors" acquire, get - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work"
	3.	receive - register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal" pick up perceive, comprehend - to become aware of through the senses; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon" hear - receive a communication from someone; "We heard nothing from our son for five years"
	4.	receive - go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" experience, have, get suffer, sustain, have, get - undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"; "She got a bruise on her leg"; "He got his arm broken in the scuffle" undergo - pass through; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "undergo a strange sensation" take - experience or feel or submit to; "Take a test"; "Take the plunge" horripilate - have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps; "I horripilate when I see violence on television"
	5.	receive - express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees" take in, invite welcome - receive someone, as into one's house absorb - assimilate or take in; "The immigrants were quickly absorbed into society" see - receive as a specified guest; "the doctor will see you now"; "The minister doesn't see anybody before noon" assume - take up someone's soul into heaven; "This is the day when May was assumed into heaven" induct - admit as a member; "We were inducted into the honor society"
	6.	receive - accept as true or valid; "He received Christ" accept - consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"
	7.	receive - bid welcome to; greet upon arrival welcome greet, recognise, recognize - express greetings upon meeting someone
	8.	receive - convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals" convert - change the nature, purpose, or function of something; "convert lead into gold"; "convert hotels into jails"; "convert slaves to laborers"
	9.	receive - experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition" encounter, meet experience, have - undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up"
	10.	receive - have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning" fete, celebrate - have a celebration; "They were feting the patriarch of the family"; "After the exam, the students were celebrating"
	11.	receive - receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison" get catch, get - suffer from the receipt of; "She will catch hell for this behavior!"
	12.	receive - partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament Christian religion, Christianity - a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior partake, touch - consume; "She didn't touch her food all night"
	13.	receive - regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received" consider, regard, view, reckon, see - deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

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receive

verb 1. get, accept, be given, pick up, collect, obtain, acquire, take, derive, be in receipt of, accept delivery of

verb 2. experience, suffer, bear, go through, encounter, meet with, sustain, undergo, be subjected to

verb 3. greet, meet, admit, welcome, entertain, take in, accommodate, be at home to

Translations

receive [rɪˈsiːv] vt → recibir [+ guest]; acoger [+ wound]; sufrir;

"received with thanks" → "recibí"

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receive [rɪˈsiːv] vt → recevoir [+ guest]; recevoir, accueillir;

"received with thanks" (Comm) → "pour acquit";

Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation

En Grande-Bretagne, la Received Pronunciation ou "RP" est une prononciation de la langue anglaise qui, récemment encore, était surtout associée à l'aristocratie et à la bourgeoisie, mais qui maintenant est en général considérée comme la prononciation correcte.

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receive [rɪˈsiːv] vt → erhalten, bekommen;

(injury) → erleiden;

(treatment) → erhalten;

(visitor, guest) → empfangen;

to be on the receiving end of sth → der/die Leidtragende von etw sein;

"received with thanks" (Comm) → "dankend erhalten"

Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation oder RP ist die hochsprachliche Standardaussprache des britischen Englisch, die bis vor Kurzem in der Ober- und Mittelschicht vorherrschte und auch noch großes Ansehen unter höheren Beamten genießt.

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receive [rɪˈsiːv] vt → ricevere [+ guest]; ricevere, accogliere;

"received with thanks" (COMM) → "per quietanza"